Books like Bestiario
12 books with a reading profile close to Bestiario by Julio Cortázar. Deep, inward-looking, contemplative, open-ended and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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Assembly
Also deep and inward-looking · literary, experimental
In this concise novel, an unnamed Black British woman prepares for a weekend party at her white boyfriend’s family estate.
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Lost Children Archive
Also deep and inward-looking · literary, experimental
A family of four travels by car from New York City to the Chiricahua Mountains in Arizona.
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Interior Chinatown
by Charles Yu
Also deep and open-ended · literary, experimental
Interior Chinatown follows Willis Wu, a background actor trapped in the repetitive hierarchy of a procedural television show titled Black and White.
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Pastoralia
Also deep and thought-provoking · literary, experimental
George Saunders' collection mixes satire, dark comedy and surreal settings, with working-class characters who struggle against a strange economy.
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Bliss Montage
by Ling Ma
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · literary, experimental
Ling Ma’s collection contains eight stories where the surreal intersects with the mundane.
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Woyzeck
Also deep and inward-looking · literary, experimental
Franz Woyzeck is a low-ranking soldier stationed in a provincial German town, struggling to provide for his common-law wife, Marie, and their infant son.
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Ojos de perro azul
Also deep and inward-looking · literary, experimental
This collection of short stories documents the early development of Gabriel García Márquez’s narrative style before his shift into Macondo.
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Outline
by Rachel Cusk
Also deep and contemplative · literary, experimental
Faye, a British novelist, travels to Athens during a summer heatwave to teach a week-long creative writing course.
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To Paradise
Also deep and inward-looking · literary, experimental
This novel follows three distinct narratives set in a reimagined New York City across different centuries.
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Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour: An Introduction
Also deep and inward-looking · literary, experimental
J.D.
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The Employees
by Olga Ravn
Also deep and inward-looking · literary, experimental
Set aboard the Six-Thousand Ship orbiting the planet New Discovery, the narrative unfolds through a series of witness statements delivered to an anonymous committee.
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Howl and Other Poems
Also deep and inward-looking · literary, experimental
Published in 1956, this collection centers on the title poem, a frantic catalog of mid-century American struggle.
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